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The U.S. Postal Service just released this unique JWST stamp.Illustration: USPSThe U.S. Postal Service just released a majestic, glittery, and fabulous new stamp to commemorate the Webb Telescope, the most powerful space-based observatory ever built. The new addition is a reminder of the many striking stamps that have celebrated U.S. achievements in space over the past seven decades. The new stamp, issued on Thursday, features an artist’s illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope soaring against a backdrop of…

Buzz Aldrin aboard the lunar module “Eagle” on July 21, 1969 after leaving the Moon’s surface. He is wearing an in-flight jacket that went up for auction and sold over $2.7 million.Photo: -/AFP (Getty Images)Have you ever been to a garage sale where someone was selling sports trophies? Kinda tacky, right? Well, it’s not so much the same when an ex-astronaut does it, especially when it’s one of the original moon landing astronaut’s Presidential Medal of Freedom.That, and more items of near-legendary significance to lovers…

The Apollo 13 Saturn rocket being rolled out to the launch pad in 1970.Photo: NASAFor millennia, our species looked at the Moon as a place that would forever be beyond our reach, but 20th-century technologies finally made our natural satellite accessible to probes, landers, and even human explorers. Despite these achievements, however, the Moon has furiously resisted our overtures, as these lamentable historical episodes attest.In August 1958, some six months after the launch of the first U.S. satellite, the Air Force…